Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On 23/01/15 19:21, Joe wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:08:56 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:46:04 + Lisi Reisz wrote: Touché. :-( Yes, that wasn't very nice. But one can hardly compare 1985 with now! Hard drives were in single figure gig sizes. More like meg sizes... I was thinking that. My ARM-based Archimedes of 1989 had a 40MB drive option, and my first PC in 1996 had a 1G drive, which was typical then. A fresh Windows 95 installation occupied about 25MB... and RiscOS in the 1989 Archimedes was a half-MB ROM. One-second boot. My Archimedes originally only had the 800MB floppy, then upgraded to a 20MB HDD and shortly after to a 105MB SCSI HDD. Then I upgraded my BBC B to a 42MB HDD :) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54c2aa8d.3020...@rpdom.net
Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On 22/01/15 01:36, Gene Heskett wrote: gene@coyote:~/Downloads$ parted /dev/sdb unit s print WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions. Model: ATA ST1000VX000-1CU1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 1953525168s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 16384s 112656383s 11264s ext4 boot 2 112656384s 215056383s 10240s linux-swap(v1) 3 215062155s 317460464s 102398310s ext4 4 317460465s 1953520064s 1636059600s ext4 Bob Which it is not complaining about. BUT that is not how I spent an hour partitioning it last night, zero resemblance, partitions 2 & 3 were specced with 50G's for swap and /, the last, big one is /home. So how big do you think 102,400,000 x 512-byte logical sectors is? I make it 50G. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54c0969b.8070...@rpdom.net
Re: dd
On 11/08/14 05:48, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - I am having trouble w/ dd. I am sure that it is probably a stupid mistake. Anyway..,. /dev/sdb [500 G external USB drive] has one partition /dev/sdb1 which is mounted on /media/lin50 I wish to copy /var/www to the USB drive. I have tried: root@meow:/var# dd if=/var/www of=/dev/sdb1/ bs=2048 dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sdb1/’: Is a directory root@meow:/var# dd if=/var/www of=/dev/sdb/ bs=2048 dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sdb/’: Is a directory root@meow:/var# dd if=/var/www of=/media/lin50/ bs=2048 dd: failed to open ‘/media/lin50/’: Is a directory root@meow:/var# dd if=/var/www/ of=/media/lin50/ bs=2048 dd: failed to open ‘/media/lin50/’: Is a directory dd is the wrong tool for that job. You need something to copy the contents of the directory, like rsync or just simply cp cp -a /var/www/* /media/lin50 -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53e859a5.9010...@rpdom.net
Re: Debian php5 (Can't get download when doing apt-update)
On 06/08/14 02:46, Jerry Stuckle wrote: If you see the code, then your Apache isn't set up properly to parse PHP code. Installing libapache2-mod-php5 should fix that for you. You don't need both libapache2-mod-php5 and php5-cgi; for now don't even fool with php5-cgi. And php-auth-http is completely unrelated to your problem. Installing just libapcahce2-mod-php5 should set up the Apache configuration for you. If after installing this, you get a 500 error, you need to look at /var/lib/apache/error.log (or whatever your Apache error log is called) to see what's happening. It should be /var/log/apache2/error.log As mentioned by someone else, it's possibly a permissions issue on the file (it needs Read permissions for the Apache User "www-data" at least), or something wrong in the code. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53e1ba4c.50...@rpdom.net
Re: Strange issue with `find' command
On 02/08/14 09:20, Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2014-08-02 at 08:56 +0100, Dom wrote: [...] find . -name *.pdf will expand out to find . -name test1.pdf test2.pdf and there you get your error. But find . -name "test1.pdf" will remain unchanged as the shell won't try and expand the quoted values. I guess you meant that last example to be: find . -name '*.pdf' I did indeed. Well spotted :) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53dcc9ba.6040...@rpdom.net
Re: Strange issue with `find' command
On 02/08/14 08:41, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Searching in internet, I've found the solution but not te explanation of the following error message: find: paths must precede expression: that the `find' command sometimes produces and sometimes not when used with the `*' character, e.g. to search for `*.pdf'. The solution consists in quoting the argument: '*.pdf'. But it seems to remain obscure when the error is generated and when and why not. Please, any idea? Shell expansion of the "*" character. If you use *.pdf the shell will try and match it against entries in the current directory. If there are no matching entries it will leave it as *.pdf. If there is one matching entry (say "test.pdf") the shell will substitute it so find looks for test.pdf. If there is more than one matching entry, the shell will expand it to all of them and you get too many parameters. Say we have test1.pdf and test2.pdf. find . -name *.pdf will expand out to find . -name test1.pdf test2.pdf and there you get your error. But find . -name "test1.pdf" will remain unchanged as the shell won't try and expand the quoted values. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53dc99a5.6090...@rpdom.net
Re: behavior of sudo -E
On 08/07/14 15:42, Harry Putnam wrote:
I must be miss-understanding the usage of sudo's option `-E' (preserve users
env).
One would think that tools found along user path would then be
available to `sudo'
Here is what puzzles me:
Note:
--- --- ---=--- --- ---
ls -l /merb/dv/home/harry/scripts/enw <= custom script on $PATH
-rwxr-xr-x 1 harry nfsu 194 Jul 8 10:24 /merb/dv/home/harry/scripts/enw
harry $ echo $PATH (filtered)
. . . . . . . . . . [...] /merb/dv/home/harry/scripts: [...] . .
harry $ which enw:
/merb/dv/home/harry/scripts/enw
--- --- ---=--- --- ---
And now testing sudo -E
--- --- ---=--- --- ---
harry $ sudo -E echo $PATH (filtered)
. . . . . . . . . [...] /merb/dv/home/harry/scripts: [...] . . . . .
OK, so far sudo -E has retained the $PATH env of user `harry' that
leads to the script in question.
However, in that case I do not understand this behavior below:
sudo -E which enw
{no output}
sudo -E enw
sudo: enw: command not found
--- --- ---=--- --- ---
It seems sudo -E has the right $PATH env, but cannot find a tool along
that path.
I believe it's to do with the "secure_path" setting in /etc/sudoers.
This forces the user to have a "sane" PATH variable when using sudo.
There's nothing to stop you running your program using a full or
relative filename though.
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Re: Weird hw/system time issue..
On 13/06/14 18:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 13 iun 14, 08:32:29, Dave Frandin wrote: I think I might have found the problem.. $TZ was unset.. Dunno how/why.. Added a "export TZ='PST8PDT" to /etc/profile and the problem is gone... I'd completely forgotten about the TZ variable... Thanks for the reboot of my brain, everybody!! Sorry to disappoint, but $TZ is empty here, yet everything works as expected. If $TZ is empty the timezone setting is supposed to be automatically taken from /etc/timezone. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/539b4729.10...@rpdom.net
Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Apache to display a directory
On 14/05/14 03:16, Stephen Powell wrote: Well, I finally solved this one, but it was by no means simple. In summary, here is what I had to do: In /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, I added the following line at the end of the file: Alias /icons /usr/share/apache2/icons I believe the recommended way of changing configurations now is to create a file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ and put your custom option in there. That way the original conf file can get updated on upgrades without it telling you the file has been modified and asking if you want to keep the old one or install the new one. In /etc/apache2/mods-enabled, I added the following symlinks: ln -s ../mods-available/alias.load alias.load ln -s ../mods-available/autoindex.conf autoindex.conf ln -s ../mods-available/autoindex.load autoindex.load ln -s ../mods-available/mime.conf mime.conf ln -s ../mods-available/mime.load mime.load Easier to type: a2enmod alias a2enmod autoindex a2enmod mime which does all the ln -s stuff for you. Then, I reloaded the server configuration with /etc/init.d/apache2 reload and refreshed the browser cache with F5. Apache now displays directories! Glad you got it fixed :) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5372eb58.6000...@rpdom.net
Re: boot in console mode from grub2
On 05/05/14 09:58, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte wrote: I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want to have a "normal boot" without X. I can't find any tuto for grub2 installed on my system. This is a function of initramfs-tools and not of grub. Add "text" to the kernel cmdline. Which you can do by editing the /etc/default/grub file and changing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="text" and running update-grub -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53675a43.4050...@rpdom.net
Re: Is it a bug -- mount does not work on 127.0.0.1/127.0.1.1 interfaces?
On 24/04/14 18:51, Snow Leopard wrote: Hi, OS: wheezy / squeeze Could somebody explain what wrong? Why mount refuses to mount through loopback interface? The issue can be reproduced in your system with next set of commands root# mkdir -p /exports/home root# cat >> /etc/exports /export/home 192.168.0.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check) This is allowing access to all clients on network 192.168.0.0 ^C root# exportfs -ra root# mount -t nfs 127.0.0.1:/export/home /mnt You haven't allowed access to clients on network 127.0.0.0 You probably need something like this in /etc/exports: /export/home 192.168.0.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check) 127.0.0.0/24(rw,sync,nosubtree_check) (all on one line, that probably got wrapped) No bug. Just wrong configuration. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53596299.6080...@rpdom.net
Re: Why still heartbleed on Wheezy
On 20/04/14 06:39, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I installed Wheezy on my backup server, then did this: apt-get update apt-get upgrade root@bupserv:/backupserver/stevebup# openssl version OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013 root@bupserv:/backupserver/stevebup# Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list: == # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20140208-13:45]/ wheezy main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20140208-13:45]/ wheezy main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main # wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile' deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free == Any ideas how I should proceed? By checking the revision of the release, rather than just the internal version number. dom@ozzy:~$ dpkg-query -W openssl openssl 1.0.1e-2+deb7u6 The "deb7u6" is the important bit. The "heartbleed" bug only exists in deb7u4 and earlier. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/535369f4@rpdom.net
Re: where is libgtk2 (for Raspbian)?
On 09/04/14 14:01, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 09 April 2014 01:40:48 Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: But this is not a support list for raspbian, they must have theyr own support. Currently Raspbian doesn't maintain a forum of its own. http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums The best place to ask for Raspbian advice/support is on the Raspberry Pi forums in the Raspbian sub-forum http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=66 -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/534553c7.3030...@rpdom.net
Re: need help on using crontab
On 19/02/14 07:13, Tom Furie wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:56:50AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: I want to shutdown at 5:03 I check with crontab -l it seems OK Depending on how you created the file the format may or may not be okay. Did you create the file in /etc/cron.d, or as a user with 'crontab -e'? Given that you say 'crontab -l' seems okay I suspect the latter. From the original post, Long Wind seems to have used the original method of creating crontabs: crontab The usual sequence (on the old Unix systems I used to admin) was: crontab -l > mycronfile vi mycronfile (to edit) crontab mycronfile crontab -e is much easier and safer to use. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/53046962.4030...@rpdom.net
Re: Bombono DVD
On 17/02/14 16:26, Go Linux wrote: On Mon, 2/17/14, Darac Marjal wrote: Subject: Re: Bombono DVD To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 17, 2014, 6:46 AM On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 01:46:48PM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > On Sunday, February 16, 2014 06:24:10 PM LM--- wrote: > > Dear developers, > > > > I WANT BOMBONO DVD > > for the next Debian release > > > > ;-)) > > > > It's simply working great here! > > > > ludo > > What is a "Bombono DVD?" Bombono DVD appears to be a DVD authoring program. It was ITP'd back in 2012[1], but it appears that the DD never quite got around to packaging it. A note on dvd authoring . . . Since dvdstyler didn't make it into the wheezy repos, I tried bombono. bombono works but is not as feature-rich as dvdstyler. UGH! After a year of frustration and keeping on squeeze to solve the problem, Steve Pusser over at Mepis put together a dvdstyler package for wheezy. You can get it at the Mepis Community Repos. I can now move to wheezy for video production! Not even thinking about jessie yet. I've had enough frustration for a while . . . Ludo, if you're interested, why not drop the developer a line and see if they want any help packaging the software? [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690032 I know the repo is frowned upon by many, bombono-dvd is available for wheezy on the deb-multimedia site. I haven't tried dvdstyler. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/53024780.4030...@rpdom.net
Re: ttytter can't tweet
On 23/01/14 09:33, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 07:07:48PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't figure it out yet.
Script started on Wed 22 Jan 2014 07:16:36 PM EST
jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ cat .ttytterrc
vcheck=1
autosplit=1
Twitter has moved to an all-SSL API[1], so try adding "ssl=1". You may
also find that the streaming API ("dostream=1") works better as A)
messages are pushed to your client rather than the client having to poll
regularly and B) the rate limit is more relaxed on the Streaming API.
[1] https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/24239
Thank you. I had been wondering why ttytter hadn't been working for a
few days and was going to investigate when I got time.
Now I don't need to :-)
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Re: Can't install any packages, "APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined"
On 27/11/13 08:29, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/11/13 19:14, John Magolske wrote: * Scott Ferguson [131126 23:43]: On 27/11/13 17:46, John Magolske wrote: I'm finding I can't install any packages with `aptitude dist-upgrade` `aptitude install ...` etc, keep getting this: % sudo aptitude dist-upgrade [...] E: APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined. E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error code (10) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 A package failed to install. Trying to recover: *A package failed to install.* Try:- # apt-get -sf install | more and see what it says. If it suggests a rational solution repeat without the -s *then* do:- # apt-get upgrade Only then should you dist-upgrade. Any `apt-get install` fails with an error message related to "APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined". For example: # apt-get -sf install jupp | more Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following NEW packages will be installed: jupp 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 280 not upgraded. Inst jupp (3.1.26-1 Debian:unstable [i386]) Conf jupp (3.1.26-1 Debian:unstable [i386]) # apt-get -f install jupp | more Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following NEW packages will be installed: jupp E: APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined. E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error code (10) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 280 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/202 kB of archives. After this operation, 615 kB of additional disk space will be used. `apt-get upgrade` gets that message as well. Regards, John When you say "any apt-get install" fails did you actually try exactly what I suggested? # apt-get -sf install Not:- # apt-get install $something I'd suggest you try seeing what "apt-get -f install" suggests needs fixing instead of presuming it's a particular package, especially as the message seems to imply it's not judd. To me it looks like it could be an issue with apt-listbugs. I'd suggest temporarily removing apt-listbugs using dpkg -r apt-listbugs then try the "apt-get -f install" again. If successful, reinstall apt-listbugs using apt-get after doing all upgrades required. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5295b79f.30...@rpdom.net
Re: Daily downloads with apt / aptitude?
On 15/09/13 20:26, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Dom wrote: On 15/09/13 08:58, thunders...@loop.de wrote: Related to this thing another question: Is there already a debian way, to force those new downloaded packages to install, when the system is being shutdown by the user? (Similar like windows does). Yuck! That's one of the things I hate about windows. (don't run it myself, but wife does). If we're going away for a while and want to take our laptops with us, I can shut down Debian in a few seconds, but sometimes her Windows will take up to an hour with updates, making us late for our bus/train/plane/spaceship. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2012/06/04/offline-os-updates-looking-forward-to-gnome-3-6/ Well, there's no way I'll ever use gnome again, so that doesn't matter to me. I usually boot into single user mode, run backups then updates then continuing booting to desktop (xfce). A fairly safe way of doing things. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52361b39.1060...@rpdom.net
Re: Daily downloads with apt / aptitude?
On 15/09/13 08:58, thunders...@loop.de wrote: Hi all, I think, I missed a change some time, for I noticed, that when I let my notebook run over night, it shows that all new packages are already downloaded (but not installed). As I cannot remember to have activated cron-apt (although it is installed), I guess it has something to do with /etc/cron.daily/apt or /etc/cron.daily/aptitude. However, this feature is nice, but when was this change implemented. I could not remember, heard abouit it, yet. Have you looked in the apt and aptitude changelogs? Related to this thing another question: Is there already a debian way, to force those new downloaded packages to install, when the system is being shutdown by the user? (Similar like windows does). Yuck! That's one of the things I hate about windows. (don't run it myself, but wife does). If we're going away for a while and want to take our laptops with us, I can shut down Debian in a few seconds, but sometimes her Windows will take up to an hour with updates, making us late for our bus/train/plane/spaceship :( I normally run updates when I start up in the morning, but can skip it if I am in a hurry. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/523573c1.7020...@rpdom.net
Re: Reg: gcc option for printing large number (large double)
On 09/09/13 07:21, Joel Rees wrote: Not sure why neither man -k nor whereis can find float.h, but it compiles okay. dom@oz:~$ locate float.h /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.6/include/float.h /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.7/include/float.h /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/numpy/core/include/numpy/halffloat.h /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/core/include/numpy/halffloat.h /usr/share/pyshared/numpy/core/include/numpy/halffloat.h whereis looks on the PATH for a command. float.h isn't a command. It does also look for manpages, but... It does have a manpage: http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=float.h but perhaps you don't have it installed. I certainly don't. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/522d7707.7090...@rpdom.net
Re: end of resume sequence (to run my USB network fixup script)
On 06/09/13 03:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Gday, when I come out of hibernate, I have to run ifdown, ifup, for my ethernet device to make it work again (it's a USB device). I would like my ifup/ifdown script to work automatically. My /etc/network/interfaces does not have auto for my ethernet device, because I only want internet when I want it - I do not want the device on all the time, but if it was on when I hibernated, I do want it to be re-enabled when I come out of hibernation. I hope this makes sense. I can think of at least one way of doing it. Do you have a script that you run when you want the network to start and stop? If so, make it write the desired state to a file somewhere. Let's use "on" and "off" as the contents of the file. Then set up the device in /e/n/i like this. I'm using eth9 as an example, and assuming your net status file will be /var/run/netstatus. auto eth9 iface eth9 inet dhcp pre-up ( grep -q "on" /var/run/netstatus) If the grep fails to find "on" in the file it will return 1 and the interface won't be started. If it does find "on", it will return 0 and the interface will be started. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52296e93.6080...@rpdom.net
Re: Headers for Debian 3.0.4 on ARM
On 05/09/13 16:45, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I have Debian 3.0.4 (via uname -r) on an ARM processor (after update/upgrade) and am trying to get the kernel headers to compile a module for it. aptitude shows the only headers available are for versions 2.6 and 3.2.0.4. You might be better off asking this question in the Debian ARM list. debian-...@lists.debian.org The people there will probably be more familiar with what you need to do, and all the different varieties of ARM kernels. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5228ae4a.1080...@rpdom.net
Re: file system analogue of blkid.
On 04/09/13 01:59, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: * From: Sven Joachim * Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:48:45 +0200 ... for ext[234] filesystems dumpe2fs(8) gives quite a lot of useful information. Is there anything similar for FAT? I'm interested to find the "sectors-per-cluster" for an extant filesystem. Try file -s /dev/sdXn dom@oz:~$ file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: sticky x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3e, OEM-ID "MSWIN4.1", Bytes/sector 2048, sectors/cluster 16, root entries 1024, Media descriptor 0xf8, sectors/FAT 242, heads 236, hidden sectors 32, sectors 989280 (volumes > 32 MB) , serial number 0x0, label: " ", FAT (16 bit) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5226c741.4060...@rpdom.net
Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?
On 31/08/13 19:46, David Guntner wrote: Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 10:59:34 -0700, David Guntner wrote: Because it makes no sense to me, whatsoever, as to why it would be pulling in information from areas that are traditionally not booted from. Like, for example, under /backup. So for me, it's a mystery. There's probably a reason for it, but I don't know what it is. You've been given the reason; you have to adjust you thinking to it. I don't mind a bit of cutting of mails, but when I said > The only way for that line to be generated is for an /etc/debian_version > file to be found on the partition. it was really an invitation for you to look for the file and say whether it exists. Does it? Oh, sorry! I guess I missed that part. I suppose it exists on the partition in a sense, but within the filesystem, it lives as /backup/etc/debian_version. /backup is the only mounted filesystem on /dev/sdb1. There's an actual /etc/debian_version file on sda5 (where / is mounted) as well. os-prober doesn't care where a particular partition is currently mounted. It assumes that every partition might possibly be mounted as "/" and examines the contents to see if there are certain files and directories that look like they are part of a bootable system. It found etc/debian_version on sdb1 and therefore assumed that /dev/sdb1 could be a bootable Debian system. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/522245a7.5060...@rpdom.net
Re: deb-multimedia repository
On 23/08/13 18:46, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 23 August 2013 02:04:01 Doug wrote: My complaint is with Debian's politics: if it's not FOSS, you can't have it. I have non-FLOSS applications on my Debian computer. I also used an unofficial installer that had non-free drivers in. It was readily available, and I learnt about it on this list. So if Debian is trying to prevent us from having non-FLOSS software, it is making a very bad job of it. I thought the reason that libdvdcss(2) wasn't included in the Debian repos isn't because of any issues with the licensing, but because it may potentially be illegal to use in some areas due to the fact the it cracks copyright protection on media. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5217b248.4050...@rpdom.net
Re: mount.cifs: bad UNC ...
On 19/08/13 21:31, Albretch Mueller wrote: I am unsuccessfully trying to mount a Windows Network share which (on windows) advertises itself as using the following path ~ \\315wcclassdc.wcclasses.local\users$\class1 ~ but this is what I am getting: $ sudo mkdir -p /media/cifs $ sudo mount -t cifs \\315wcclassdc.wcclasses.local\users$\class1 -o username=class1,password=12345 /media/cifs mount.cifs: bad UNC (\315wcclassdc.wcclasses.localusers$class1) That failed, obviously $ sudo mount -t cifs //315wcclassdc.wcclasses.local/users$/class1 -o username=class1,password=12345 /media/cifs unable to add mount entry to mtab error 22 detected on close of mtab unable to add mount entry to mtab I think that is the correct format, and it actually succeeded in mounting the share, but for some reason it has been unable to update the mtab file - which is a symlink to /proc/mounts, which is a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. $ sudo mount -t cifs "//315wcclassdc.wcclasses.local/users$/class1" -o username=class1,password=12345 /media/cifs mount error(16): Device or resource busy Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) That one failed because the previous command worked (sort of) and the share is now mounted. How do I troubleshoot that problem? ~ How do you probe a Windows FS from within Linux? I think the issue is "Why couldn't it update /proc/self/mounts?" ~ $ uname -a Linux Microknoppix 3.3.7 #38 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 22 06:21:01 CEST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux Hmm, not Debian then. The /etc/mtab links or permissions may be different. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5212c2dd.90...@rpdom.net
Re: Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package
On 17/08/13 17:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) IIRC there's a command that can fake, that an unmet dependency is fulfilled. I already searched for apt, dpkg, aptitude regarding to this subject, but had no success. Am I mistake, is a dummy package needed? I'm not sure if there is anything that can directly bypass dependencies. But the equivs package can be used to build a dummy package to satisfy them. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/520fae53.1040...@rpdom.net
Re: icedove configuration problem
On 11/08/13 10:22, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, As thunderbird is banned from debian, I try to setup my email account using icedove. It fails! For 2 reasons: 1- I presume that icedove check if my email address is a "valid" address (and it is, I use it since almost 20 years at Paris Descartes University) in some data bases. As it seems to fail to find it, It reject it (even using "manual" configuration). 2- I use to use an ssh tunnel to link some port (>1048) of my machine to the smtp port of the mail server at the university. Icedove allows to only use ports 25, 587 and 465 What is this way of doing? Some people somewhere want to help "ignorant" people to configure their mail? Or is it now like in past SSSR: only one address for everybody? That's will easier for the NSA! What shall I do? Change my email address? Use mutt? Thank you for any help and sorry for the groaning! I haven't tried this, but I think if you set up the account under Icedove with the default ports and ignore any warnings about it failing to connect, you can later go to the account settings and change the port numbers to anything you like. Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52078585.9000...@rpdom.net
Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)
On 11/08/13 03:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original question. - Still an unhelpful question, esp when one knows the true meaning of SNAFU have resulted in Gnome being install, too. More or less. So I just did as root in /root a 'dpkg --download,' and then an '--unpack' thinking that would uncompress the .deb file in /root from which I would get the single svg file I needed, and then just delete everything else. Simple. Right? Wrong. Now, I'm stuck with about 4.5 megs of Gnome data, icons, AFAIU, a .deb file is just an 'ar' archive. As to how to recover after an unintentional unpack, ... dunno. Hopefully someone on this list knows now that the subject explains your predicament. Fortunately --unpack just "installed" files to their appropriate directories, but didn't "trigger" or configure anything. Not all that up on dpkg. Have always used apt-get. If I don't hear anything bad to the contrary in the next day or so, I'm just going to use "--purge" to remove the package after creating a copy of the file I need in a safe directory, then copy the copy back after the purging. Hopefully, it will work. Good luck with that, it sounds like it will work. Alternatively you can get a list of the files contained in the .deb file using "dpkg -c debfile". With a little bit of wrangling that will give you a list of files and directories to delete - although you should only delete directories if they are empty. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52071ca5.9070...@rpdom.net
Re: Removing x11-common
On 06/08/13 17:26, Kyle Kuhn wrote: Hi, I wasn't sure where to start so I started here. I am developing my own Distro of Linux, and I am using Debian as a base. I am trying to remove all programs dependent on the X11-Common package without actually removing the X11-Common package. I am using the most recent Debian LTS. Is there a way APT can do this, or will I have to remove the x11-common package, then "#apt-get autoremove" and reinstall x11-common? Thanks in advanced. You could use "apt-cache rdepends x11-common" to find all packages that directly depend on x11-common, remove those which will take out any packages that depend on them too and see what autoremove will show as left. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52012f39.20...@rpdom.net
Re: Mysql
On 31/07/13 06:18, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: root@meow:/home/ethan# apt-get install mysql-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mysql-server : Depends: mysql-server-5.5 but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages root@meow:/home/ethan# apt-get install mysql-client Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mysql-client : Depends: mysql-client-5.5 but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages root@meow:/home/ethan# So, the mysql server isn't installed, or isn't installed correctly. That could be why it doesn't start ;-) It looks like something is wrong with your apt sources.list file(s). You shouldn't get mismatched dependencies like that. Could you show us your /etc/apt/sources.list and the contents of any files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d? Also the output of apt-get update -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51f8be6a.9030...@rpdom.net
Re: Mysql
On 30/07/13 21:30, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 16:16 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Is the MySQL server running? ps aux | grep mysql ---> ethan@meow:~$ ps aux | grep mysql ethan 3043 0.0 0.0 3300 772 pts/0S+ 13:12 0:00 grep mysql<-- ps aux does show all running processes ;). 3043 is the process identifier. If you would run kill -9 3043 you could see what happens if it wouldn't run. It didn't need CPU or memory for work at the moment you run ps aux. Run top while mysql is working. Process 3043 in this case is the grep command from ps aux | grep mysql. It looks like mysql is not running. Next step is to look in /var/log/mysql.log for error messages indicating why it didn't start. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51f824b5.9020...@rpdom.net
Re: fsck on boot...revisited
On 26/07/13 20:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 19:01 +0100, Dom wrote: On 26/07/13 17:53, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 11:54 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: The system in question is running from an SSD, which I assume changes your assumptions quite a bit. With a traditional HDDs, the loss of power causes a head crash, etc which does in turn lessen the life of the drive. Actually, I fail to see why a power outage would have any negative effect on an HDD (e.g. why would the "head crash"?). In the old days the heads were not driven back, but for around more than 20 years the heads will park by the momentum of the turns, when there should be a blackout. IIRC if the drives didn't turn fast enough, the heads could crash. Today a power outage definitively doesn't cause a crash and AFAIR even my old 42 MB SCSI survived power outages. True. Back in those days the heads on some disks had to be sent a "park" command before powering off and what that did was to move the head to an reserved area of the disk before landing. Modern drives park the heads off the disks completely. I do remember so old 500MB mainframe disk units (14 inch 10 platter or so, 4 per unit) that had a slight fault. The normal procedure was to press the "offline" button, which retracted the heads from the disk, then press the "power" button to turn them off. Due to a glitch in the circuitry this would sometimes result in a surge in the head actuator coil and the heads would move back across the disks just as they stopped spinning, resulting in major damage to the entire unit. Later a small button was fitted which disconnected the coil and we had to hold that down until the disk had stopped spinning. JFTR in the meantime I read the German Wiki and it claims that heads automatically are parked since 1989, IOW>= 24 years ago there was this issue. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Crash Yep, we had a couple of platters similar to those IBM ones on our office wall as "trophies" :) I was lucky in that my own first hard disk (10MB) survived several unexpected sudden power outages without any noticeable problems. It was still working 20 years later - but very slow, it used a stepper motor to move the heads. It seemed fast in those days when I was used to using 5.25" floppies on my home computer. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51f2d539.8000...@rpdom.net
Re: fsck on boot...revisited
On 26/07/13 17:53, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 11:54 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: The system in question is running from an SSD, which I assume changes your assumptions quite a bit. With a traditional HDDs, the loss of power causes a head crash, etc which does in turn lessen the life of the drive. Actually, I fail to see why a power outage would have any negative effect on an HDD (e.g. why would the "head crash"?). In the old days the heads were not driven back, but for around more than 20 years the heads will park by the momentum of the turns, when there should be a blackout. IIRC if the drives didn't turn fast enough, the heads could crash. Today a power outage definitively doesn't cause a crash and AFAIR even my old 42 MB SCSI survived power outages. True. Back in those days the heads on some disks had to be sent a "park" command before powering off and what that did was to move the head to an reserved area of the disk before landing. Modern drives park the heads off the disks completely. I do remember so old 500MB mainframe disk units (14 inch 10 platter or so, 4 per unit) that had a slight fault. The normal procedure was to press the "offline" button, which retracted the heads from the disk, then press the "power" button to turn them off. Due to a glitch in the circuitry this would sometimes result in a surge in the head actuator coil and the heads would move back across the disks just as they stopped spinning, resulting in major damage to the entire unit. Later a small button was fitted which disconnected the coil and we had to hold that down until the disk had stopped spinning. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51f2b95f.5050...@rpdom.net
Re: Continuous brute force attempt from own server !!!
On 26/07/13 07:42, J B wrote: Dear list, I'm suffering with a very serious issue and seek guidance. I have a debian server functional at my place which is attached with a leased line connection. Iand I use this box as a gateway. This debian box administer a remote opensuse linux server through this debian box and I use pubkey auth mechanism to log into the remote linux server. At the remote linux server, I can found huge brute force ssh attempt at the different port and surprisingly the attempt is made with the same username which I actually use to llog into the remote box. Some of the messages from log are as below ``` accepted public key from from port 50574 ssh2 ``` The attack is random with a serially increment at port number. If I bloack the ssh connection limit through firewall at the remote box, It actually blocks me to log into in further. Could any one suggest what is happening in my local box ? rootkit ? local box compromising ? What is it ? Please suggest. Thanks That doesn't look like a "brute force attack", that's just a normal *successful* ssh login. Do you have anything on your local box that performs any ssh connection to the remote box, like rsync, scp, sftp etc? Perhaps a cron job. Do these "attacks" happen at fixed times or regular intervals? Do you use ssh to connect between the boxes a lot? If you still can't identify the source of these connections, it could be that your login on your local box has been compromised. Check the auth log on that to see when 'username' has been accessed. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51f226d4.2010...@rpdom.net
Re: Where is menuconfig?
On 23/07/13 01:08, Pete Orrall wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to build a new kernel for a Wheezy machine and I need menuconfig. However, when I do the following: #: apt-get install menuconfig The following is returned: E: Unable to locate package menuconfig. I've searched packages.debian.org for it and found nothing. What's going on? Am I missing something? TIA, Isn't menuconfig just an option in the kernel source makefile? You do "make menuconfig". It's not a package. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51edff08.1000...@rpdom.net
Re: trying to copy audio files from a CD without a file system ...
On 18/07/13 15:29, Martin Kraus wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 02:11:48PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: How do you copy files from a CD with no apparent file system (so you can't mount it and browse to it)? if it's an audio cd then you may use cdparanoia or ripit -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51e7ff1f.3070...@rpdom.net
Re: *Another* Backup software question...
On 13/07/13 21:17, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 20:58 +0100, Dom wrote: DLT has a single spool in the cart (the other being in the drive), a fast moving tape and stationary read/write head. The tapes are also much bigger and wider. I've found them to be very reliable over the years. Thank you, I already have seen this (Google images). No wrecked DLT tapes? A couple caused by faulty old drives. One wrecked because someone put the tape in upside down! Which is pretty much impossible. I can't see how they did it without a sledgehammer - mind you, knowing the person who did it... An audio studio DAT recorder might be more used and especially the portable once are more stressed than DDS for the computer, however, you pointed out that you got a few wrecked tapes, this is a common issue, the mechanic is bad designed. One spaghettied tape is an accident, _a few_ tapes IMO makes it unusable as a backup media. A few out of several hundred. I've had worse failure rates from other media. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51e1be71.2010...@rpdom.net
Re: *Another* Backup software question...
On 13/07/13 20:27, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 12:18 -0600, Glenn English wrote: On Jul 13, 2013, at 3:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I'm interested in experiences of others. In my experience CDs and DVDs more likely will fail, than HDDs do. My 10 DLT tapes I don't know DLT, but many people I know and myself have experiences with DAT. The tapes are equal to DDS. The problem here aren't the tapes, but the drives. I never heard of a DAT drive that lived very long, neither consumer, nor professional studio DATs. The mechanic is comparable with VHS video recorders, but they are that small, that the size of a drive sometimes is as small as a Walkman. Spaghettied tapes are a common issue for DAT, since DDS is the same I won't trust it and I suspect DLT doesn't differ much. There is very little similarity between DDS and DLT tapes. DDS is, as you say, a bit like VHS, in that it has a cartridge with two spools, a slow moving tape and a rotating helical scan read/write head. Actually, I've had very few wrecked tapes on those from DDS1 up to DDS-4. DLT has a single spool in the cart (the other being in the drive), a fast moving tape and stationary read/write head. The tapes are also much bigger and wider. I've found them to be very reliable over the years. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51e1b175.2030...@rpdom.net
Re: Debian 7.1 root password issue.
On 26/06/13 03:11, SANG KIM wrote: I recently installed debian 7.1 and I reinstalled it at least five times. I've tried installing it with a root password created and without and Debian still won't let me log in as root. It says "authentication failed" after I type in the root password. I've tried reinstalling it without creating a root password and it still won't let me log in. I get the same message as before. I can log in as another user, but not as root. I've checked the passwords entered and every time the password is correct, but Debian says that it's not. How can I fix these issues. I've tried to use the password command to remove whatever password I created/didn't create and I get an error message that the password command cannot be found in BASH. Is there something wrong with the Debian 7.1? I can't even install updates to the OS. How did you try to log in as root? Was it from the Desktop login, text console or by ssh? The desktop doesn't allow root logins, so you need to do it from a terminal. The command to change a password is "passwd" it should be in /usr/bin. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51ca7ef9.1030...@rpdom.net
Re: Debian Testing/Jessie
On 24/06/13 20:34, sp113438 wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:10:49 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: architecture i386 does kernel linux-image-3.9.1 still supports architecture i386? Don't confuse the architecture with the CPU model numbers. i386 is any 32 bit x86 chip, but the i386 kernels only support Pentium II and later now, unless you use the _486 versions. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51c8ab3c.9060...@rpdom.net
Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help
On 24/06/13 16:55, paul condon wrote: I have two 3TB Seagate external HDs. They were purchased from different stores at slightly different times earlier this year, here in Colorado. I want them to have ext4 file systems on them, excepting if someone on this list can give a reason otherwise. I have googled and gotten a lot of hits, which indicate to me that this is a well known problem. Unfortunately, I have difficulty following the instructions, and all my efforts have not reached a successful conclusion. Now with further trys, it seems to me that stuff has been written onto the drives that needs to be wiped off because I get messages that from the disk utility in xfce4 that it won't overwrite a disk with data on it. So I want to use dd to wipe a complete drive. For this I have found the following: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdg bs=1M In the above, I have already changed the HD device to sdg (from sda), but I wonder about bs=1M. Could the process go faster with a larger block size? What are the criteria for choosing a value for bs? And, how long should a 3T wipe take to complete? The job has been running for about 12 hours. Would it go faster with a different bs? Faster enough to make the waste of 12hrs running worthwhile? Is there some way to invoke an 'progress indicator' for dd? And, in general, is there a better way? As people have already answered all your above questions, I'll just add to the last one. Install and use dcfldd. It uses the same syntax as dd, but with some extra security and progress features. If you add "sizeprobe=of" to the command list, it will use the size of the destination drive to show a regular progress report of MB transferred and %age complete. The only issue I've found with it is that it sometimes doesn't report 100% complete if the reporting interval isn't an exact fraction of the total size. It does still write the whole file though. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51c87c34.3090...@rpdom.net
Re: mksh vs. pdksh
On 22/06/13 20:47, Jeff Shearer wrote: Good day, One feature I have used for at least 20 years with various verions of ksh is the ability to escape and scroll through my .history file using the lower case letters k and j when vi is designated as my editor in my .profile.� I just implemented mksh which is the supposed replacement for pdksh in Debian but I am unable to scroll through my .history file using the lower case letters k and j.� I am however able to scroll through my history file using the arrow keys. Is there a way to implement the scroll via lower case letters k and j when vi is selected as your editor with mksh? I've never used mksh or pdksh, but when I used to use ksh on unix systems I recall I used to have to "set -o vi" to enable that facility. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51c60929.8040...@rpdom.net
Re: Cannot run a program from an optical drive
On 15/06/13 11:22, Nikolas Kallis wrote: Hello, When I try to run a program from an optical drive as the 'root' user in Debian 7.0, I get a permission denied return. Does anyone know why this happened and how I can stop it from happening again? Is the drive mounted with the noexec option? That will prevent programs from running. I think mount defaults to noexec for optical and removable drives, unless you specify the exec option the mount command or fstab. Try mount -o remount,exec $mountpoint (Apologies, I hit Reply instead of Reply to List) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51bc64e5.4030...@rpdom.net
Re: Checking for installed package
On 25/05/13 06:30, Kip Warner wrote: Hey list, I'd like to know the most reliable way for a bash script to verify that a package is installed on the user's system. I've looked already at dpkg, dpkg-query, and aptitude. These are the constraints: 1. It needs to work on any stock Debian based system, e.g. aptitude not always present, so can't rely on it. 2. It needs to be i18n safe, e.g. no reliance on grepping for "Installed:" output of apt-cache policy because that is en locale specific. 3. It needs to be able to distinguish a package that is installed from any other condition with only the former we care about. That means the exit code, for instance, of the query should be never be the same for a package that is installed versus one that is not installed - and not available anywhere. Any help appreciated. LANGUAGE="C" dpkg -l $packagename | grep -q "^ii " will return 0 if the package is installed and 1 for any other state. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51a053f6.4080...@rpdom.net
Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?
On 24/05/13 22:08, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? No need speed... only reliable of datas I've been using Sil3114 based cards in two of my computers for some years now without any problems. I don't use them for raid though, just as ordinary disk controllers. If I did use raid, I would go for software every time. Mostly because if the card failed and I had to get another then I could use any card that was available without having to worry about raid compatibility. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51a043ff.3060...@rpdom.net
Re: New distro
On 08/05/13 22:33, Bob Proulx wrote: Valaki Valahol wrote: Also where can I find the older distros, eg. 6.0.7 that I can download all the DVD IDO images ? Older images are available. Now that Wheezy 7.0 has released the previous Squeeze 6.0 is now "older". These are available in archive section. Here is a reference: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ Older full DVD isos are here (at least for now): http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/6.0.7/amd64/iso-dvd/ But if you follow my directions in the previous message for jigdo then you can do the same thing again for these DVD images. # apt-get install jigdo-file $ mkdir jigdo-stuff $ cd jigdo-stuff $ jigdo-lite --noask http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/6.0.7/amd64/jigdo-dvd/debian-6.0.7-amd64-DVD-1.jigdo $ ls -ldog debian-6.0.7-amd64-DVD-1.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 4635574272 May 8 15:30 debian-6.0.7-amd64-DVD-1.iso I've used jigdo in the past, when I've wanted install DVD or CD images, but now use the netinstalls. Jigdo still has it's place though, and is a very good tool. I did find some of the command line options confusing at first (this was a few years back). I wonder if it might be worth making an even simpler front-end for just downloading (and burning) Debian DVDs? The command could be something like: jigdvd --rel=6.0.7 --arch=amd64 --dvd=1 /dev/dvd where --rel= (or -r) defaults to latest, --arch= (or -a ) defaults to current arch and --dvd= (or -d) defaults to 1. There could be a --noburn option to create the .iso without burning, and possibly a menu of available images if noting is specified on the command line. Just pondering out loud here, that's all. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518b28e8.2090...@rpdom.net
Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased
On 08/05/13 06:05, Patrick Bartek wrote: FWIW, when I originally thought of installing Linux on the Thinkpad 7 years ago, and noted the inherent problems, I did tried several floppy-based boot managers/utilities, but none of them worked. The external CD drive was either never recognized or was inaccessable: The install CD never booted. So, I looked for distros that had a boot floppy option. Debian Sarge was the winner. That was the reason I started using Debian. It was the only distro I could find that would install from floppy on my Toshiba Libretto CT70 alongside the windows 95 I was using on it at the time, and work "out of the box" with the network card and most of the other hardware. It was Potato that I stared with. I also managed to patch and compile a kernel module to support the weird PCMCIA floppy drive that it used. I did get X working after some searching and experimenting, but mostly used it for command line stuff. :) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518a99ee.5050...@rpdom.net
Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased
On 07/05/13 22:23, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Tue, 07 May 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter. Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard drive. (I said this thing was ancient. ;-) ) And except for the hard drive, all other drives are externals. Having worked with even more ancient hardware, may I suggest you try the PLOP boot manager for installation? It can be put on a floppy and supports boot from various devices even when the BIOS doesn't support them. I used it to boot the Wheezy installer from a USB stick on a Pentium MMX 166MHz sub-notebook with 32MB of memory and 2GB hard drive. I only just managed to get it to install by allocating a swap partition in the early stages of the install. But it did work :) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5189afcc.1050...@rpdom.net
Re: Package maintenance on Debian
On 29/03/13 23:31, sirquij...@lavabit.com wrote: despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only trouble with Debian squeeze. Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. How do I migrate to testing or unstable: does it require a re-install or do I just add those lists to apt-get? nvm, the Debian wiki actually covers this pretty well. Thanks for the help. :) Make sure you follow the install/upgrade notes carefully when upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy/Testing. There are some steps that have to be done in the right order (upgrading udev and kernel, for a start), or you will end up with an unusable system. It is certainly worth moving to Wheezy, as it will replace Squeeze as Stable in the very near future. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51567b7c.7010...@rpdom.net
Re: Debian-goodies package error
On 10/03/13 08:47, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, Today I've run `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` to get security fixes. It updated libc6 and some other essential packages. Should I reboot my production Web server? If yes, how often? If you install the debian-goodies package, you can run checkrestart to see what programs are still holding open old libraries - though there are some false positives. You can then decide whether you just need to restart a particular service (checkrestart will tell you what, in most cases), or whether you need to reboot. Ok, so I decided to install the Debian-goodies on my machine to test that checkrestart command but it broke, so according to the Debian policy I get to keep both pieces. ;-) Any way to fix the pieces? Get:1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main libssh2-1 i386 1.2.6-1 [77.2 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main libcurl3 i386 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze2 [281 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main curl i386 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze2 [227 kB] Get:4 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main dctrl-tools i386 2.14.5 [110 kB] Get:5 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main debian-goodies all 0.53 [49.3 kB] Fetched 746 kB in 1s (571 kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package libssh2-1. (Reading database ... 34588 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libssh2-1 (from .../libssh2-1_1.2.6-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libcurl3. Unpacking libcurl3 (from .../libcurl3_7.21.0-2.1+squeeze2_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package curl. Unpacking curl (from .../curl_7.21.0-2.1+squeeze2_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package dctrl-tools. Unpacking dctrl-tools (from .../dctrl-tools_2.14.5_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dctrl-tools_2.14.5_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in write on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./etc/grep-dctrl.rc': No space left on device configured to not write apport reports dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Selecting previously deselected package debian-goodies. Unpacking debian-goodies (from .../debian-goodies_0.53_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/dctrl-tools_2.14.5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debian-goodies: debian-goodies depends on dctrl-tools | grep-dctrl; however: Package dctrl-tools is not installed. Package grep-dctrl is not installed. dpkg: error processing debian-goodies (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up libssh2-1 (1.2.6-1) ... ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No space left on device dpkg: error processing libssh2-1 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libcurl3: libcurl3 depends on libssh2-1 (>= 1.2); however: Package libssh2-1 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libcurl3 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of curl: curl depends on libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2-1); however: Package libcurl3 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing curl (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: debian-goodies libssh2-1 libcurl3 curl Current status: 1 broken [+1]. The "No space left on drive" is the wrong symptom, there is plenty of space on all partitions. # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/linbobo-root 2064208 2064208 0 100% / Is not that line a dead giveaway? Your / partition is full. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/513c4b69.4090...@rpdom.net
Re: Moving Chromebook from Ubuntu Precise to Debian Squeeze (and eventually Wheezy)
On 23/02/13 23:25, Mark Allums wrote: Hi, all. I possess an ARM Chromebook, and was not smart enough to get Debian onto it using instructions from the Web, but I found I could follow the Ubuntu-based instructions, and I successfully installed Ubuntu 12.04 for ARM on a 64GB SDXC card. Is there a decent way to leverage Ubuntu over to Debian? Alternatively, has anyone successfully run Debian on an ARM Chromebook, and is willing to help me? I have a Samsung XE303C12. Getting root is trivial. Get it into developer mode, and Babette is your auntie. However, I am not good enough with non-PC hardware. You can replace the ChromeOS, set it up for dual-boot, or boot from USB (SD card);the last is also trivial. Any advice? You'd probably get more help on the Debian ARM specific user list: debian-...@lists.debian.org -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5129b667.9030...@rpdom.net
Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system
On 23/02/13 18:36, deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: Hi Folks, Last night I updated an older laptop of mine from Squeeze to Wheezy. It went fine, but I did run into an odd particularity. This system (Dell D505) has a Pentium M processor. My understanding is that the Pentium M's are just about the only modern(ish) processor without pae, and thus kernels with pae compiled in can't run on it. (pae doesn't show up in the cpu flags) During the upgrade I did get warnings about it not supporting pae, so I did make sure to install the 486 image, but forgot to remove the 686-pae (removed 686, though). That's not a big deal, though. It just means I'd have to select the 486 kernel to boot up and fix it, right? I wasn't paying attention during reboot, and it went to 686-pae by default. Imagine my surprise when it started up with no problems. It's still running on that kernel! Any ideas? Was my understanding about pae wrong? Can the recent Debian kernels disable pae on their own (something I didn't think was possible)? Do I have a magical Pentium M? Some info from the system below: $ uname -a Linux MIT-D505-L 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.35-2 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz stepping: 6 microcode : 0x18 cpu MHz : 600.000 cache size : 2048 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bts est tm2 bogomips: 1198.81 clflush size: 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual power management: I think the pae bit will only be used by CPUs that support it, otherwise it will be ignored and run normally. Only some "really old" CPUs (like some others I do run) won't be supported. My laptop shows: dom@oz:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 9 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz stepping: 5 microcode : 0x7 cpu MHz : 600.000 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe up bts est tm2 bogomips: 1196.90 clflush size: 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual power management: and an even older laptop gives: dom@rodney:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping: 1 microcode : 0xf cpu MHz : 498.435 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 mmx fxsr sse up bogomips: 996.87 clflush size: 32 cache_alignment : 32 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual power management: Both running the 3.2.0-4-686-pae kernel -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51291569.5030...@rpdom.net
Re: Debian is a translation.
On 03/02/13 07:40, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: OT: But thinking about that, I remember that each time I do an update with aptitude (or apt-get), translations for all languages are checked, and when you do regular updates, you spend most of the time downloading those translations. Then, to gain space, sometimes several hundreds of MB (at first run), you will run localepurge. All of this loss of time and bandwidth (for both server and client, about bandwidth) could be avoided if it was possible to fully remove all unused languages of Debian. I have no idea about the fact it is possible or not... In my /etc/apt/apt.conf, I have: Acquire::Languages "none"; This seems to prevent downloading all the translations. However, I am English, speak English as my primary language and my installs are all in English, so I'm not sure what this option would do if the system's locale is anything else. I guess change "none" to the local language? I also use a custom "locales" package which has a pre-built en_GB.UTF-8 only. It saves a *lot* of time when updating my slower systems. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/510e2088.7040...@rpdom.net
Re: How to purge removed package?
On 01/02/13 16:41, David Guntner wrote: Now, this is kind-of an odd one. I've got Dovecot2 installed on Squeeze from squeeze-backports. Originally, I had installed Dovecot (1) from the regular repository. However, there seems to have been one package left in a kind-of hanging state: dovecot-common from version 1. I discovered this when I did a aptitude search '~c' to see if there were any packages that I could clean up (I don't like to leave config files laying around when I've removed something). Several were found, including the old dovecot-common package (which as of version 2, is a transitional package that doesn't need to be there). So, having found several packages with the above command, I did a aptitude purge '~p' to clean them up. Everything *except* dovecot-common went away. When it got to dovecot-common, it just gave me an error message. Oh, and it deleted /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf for me before erroring out. Oops. Thankfully I found a backup copy in /usr/share/dovecot which I was able to copy back. :-) What was the error message? But in the meantime, I've still got this old reference to version 1 dovecot-common. # aptitude search '~c' c dovecot-common - Transitional package for dovecot # dpkg -s dovecot-common Package: dovecot-common Status: purge ok config-files Priority: optional Section: mail Installed-Size: 18948 Maintainer: Dovecot Maintainers Architecture: amd64 Source: dovecot Version: 1:1.2.15-7 Replaces: dovecot Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.7), libcomerr2 (>= 1.01), libdb4.8, libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.8+dfsg), libk5crypto3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libmysqlclient16 (>= 5.1.21-1), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpq5 (>= 8.4~0cvs20090328), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.7.3), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8m-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-13.1), openssl, adduser, ucf (>= 2.0020) Suggests: ntp Description: secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes Dovecot is a mail server whose major goals are security and extreme reliability. It tries very hard to handle all error conditions and verify that all data is valid, making it nearly impossible to crash. It should also be pretty fast, extensible, and portable. . This package contains the files used by both the dovecot IMAP and POP3 servers and the Dovecot LDA (deliver). Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ I suppose it's not actually hurting anything by remaining there, but I'd prefer to get it to purged status (p) when doing a "aptitude search dovcot" and looking at the list if I can. So, the question is: *Is* there a way I can get it to clear that "c" flag and put it back to a "p" like it should be? How to get rid of the error when trying to purge it? (Or if it's really purged, then back to how to get it to *list* it as being purged?) Do I need to remove/purge all my dovecot packages and reinstall after getting -common out? (I'd prefer to NOT do that if it can be avoided.) dpkg --purge dovecot-common Should do the job. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/510bf8b8.3080...@rpdom.net
Re: Execution of local PHP modules
On 17/01/13 11:55, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 07:04:43PM +, William Lee Valentine wrote: If one wants to test PHP modules against HTML code browsed on a local machine through the file:/// prefix, where should the PHP modules be placed? Do Apache directives have to be issued to allow PHP to process these PHP modules? Well... If you point your browser to file:///some/file, then apache will not get involved at all, as the browser will read the file directly from the file system. Thus, PHP code will not be executed at all. If you want to test PHP code locally, you're probably better off enabling the "userdir" module in apache (as well as PHP, obviously), put your PHP (or HTML or whatever) files in $HOME/public_html/, and point your browser to http://localhost/~your-login-name . If you have PHP (cli) 5.4 or later installed, it has a built-in web server for this sort of testing. cd into the directory where your php files are and enter php -S localhost:8000 The webserver will start listening on port 8000 on localhost only and report all activity to your terminal until you press Ctrl-C. Then point your browser at http:localhost:8000/yourfile.php -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50f7f8b3.8060...@rpdom.net
Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?
On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote: You mean there will be a bunch of .diff files for you to have to look through? Or something else? No - it will prompt interactively during installation. There are options on apt/dpkg to avoid the prompts by always doing either (a) install the new version or (b) leave the config file untouched. I could see where that could become problematic during a full system upgrade, especially if you've got a number of config files that you've needed to modify for one reason or another If, as someone else replied, it at least leaves a copy of the new config file behind with a .new extension or whatever, then I guess I can at least go through the process manually. What fun! It does. If you choose to retain your customised file it will save the new version with a ".dpkg-new" extension (iirc), and if you choose to replace your config it'll save your version with ".dpkg-old" on the end. (I think I got those the right way around) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50ec7fb4.5090...@rpdom.net
Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook
On 23/12/12 10:50, Thore wrote: Am 23.12.2012 01:57, schrieb berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: Le 23.12.2012 00:51, Thore a écrit : Hello, on my Alienware m15x Notebook I installed debian wheezy (in the 32bit version with kde). Hum, knowing that it is an alienware say nothing about the processor model, so maybe the 32bit choice is not the best one. I do not know, for now I did not read your full mail. It is an i3 with 64bit support, I had a 32bit cd here so used it without thinkink about it. The system has 5gb ram Now I have a few questions: 1: When I boot there will be 4 linux entrys with the kernel name. one ending ...-4-686-pae (or like this) ando one with a 2 as the 4. Can I delete the entry with the 2 (inclusive the recovery?) And how can I delete it? PAE is an extension to expand your maximum RAM above 4G byte of RAM, which is not possible for motherboards with simple 32 bit support. However, noawadays, I do not think there are still new computers without 64 bit support, which include the ability to support more RAM than old (and when I say old, that's more than 10 years) computers. I think you could remove non-pae options. In fact, I'm pretty sure you could simply move to a 64 bit architecture... but in doubt, just try to boot on pae, and if everything works correctly, remove the other one. Both entrys have a pae, my question is: can (and how can) I remove the ...-2-686-pae entry? apt-get purge linux-image-3.2.0-2-486-pae But this is moot if you are going to install the 64 bit version from scratch. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50d6f3e1.5050...@rpdom.net
Re: Copy 2 partitions to .img file
On 06/12/12 15:14, Pertti Kosunen wrote: On 6.12.2012 15:00, Hélder Pinheiro wrote: I want to copy the content of both partitions into a .img file, in order to be able to flash it on another 4GB memory card.. I tried with dd command, but I am only able to copy one partition each time or the entire 16 GB. dd if=/dev/sdb of=4GB.img bs=1M count=4k Copies 4096 times 1 megabyte blocks. For exact size image(?): sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd Disk /dev/sdd: 7969 MB, 7969177600 bytes 246 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1020 cylinders, total 15564800 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000a8206 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 2048 206847 102400 6 FAT16 /dev/sdd2 206848 13314047 6553600 83 Linux dd if=[Input Device] of=[Output File] bs=[Sector size] count=[End of last partition] dd if=/dev/sdd of=8GB.img bs=512 count=13314047 That should be count=13314048 as the sector number starts at 0, so from sector 0 to sector 13314047 is 13314048 sectors. It will only be an issue if the last sector is used though. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50c0c97e.6050...@rpdom.net
Re: [OT] End of the world
On 03/12/12 21:15, Erwan David wrote: On 03/12/12 22:12, Wolf Halton wrote: I thought it always did. Isn't that about the same time as the Winter Solstice? On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Urs Thuermannmailto:u...@isnogud.escape.de>> wrote: darkestkhanmailto:darkestk...@gmail.com>> writes: > Isn't this a bit too fast ? Wasn't End of the World scheduled in > crontab for 21.12.2012 ? ;) You cannot specify a year using crontab(1) or in /etc/crontab. You could, however, specify that the end of the world will happen on each December 21, in any year :-) urs but you can using at(1). # echo "halt" | at end of world -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50bd2e63.2040...@rpdom.net
Re: Write protect access on USB port
On 26/11/12 22:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 26 nov 12, 21:47:36, Amit wrote:
Yes the above would work in most cases but in the case I am dealing
with, the filesystem is not mounted yet. For example, I plug in a USB
drive. Before it is mounted, there is a /dev/sd[x] node. I can open
this node and write anything I want, thereby corrupting the filesystem
on that device.
Not unless you are 'root' or member of group 'floppy':
$ ls -l /dev/sdb1
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 17 nov 27 00:14 /dev/sdb1
You could just tweak the relevant udev rule to create the device nodes
as root:root or root:disk (like hard drives), since root would be able
to circumvent any protection and 'disk' is almost the same as 'root'.
I just tested a basic udev rule which sets read-only permissions on any
usb disk when inserted. Obviously root would be able to change those
permissions, but I don't believe any command (other than chmod) would
override read-only for the device file.
dom@oz:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usb-ro.rules:
#Make USB storage devices read only
KERNEL=="sd*",ACTION=="add",ENV{ID_BUS}=="usb",MODE="0444"
dom@oz:~$#(plugs in usb storage device)
dom@oz:~$ ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov 27 03:16 /dev/sda
brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 1 Nov 27 03:16 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 2 Nov 27 03:16 /dev/sda2
br--r--r-T 1 root floppy 8, 16 Nov 27 07:12 /dev/sdb
br--r--r-T 1 root floppy 8, 17 Nov 27 07:12 /dev/sdb1
dom@oz:~$
The rule may need a bit of tweaking perhaps. I'm not a udev expert by a
long way.
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Re: samsung or android device causing crash?
On 09/11/12 00:46, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:27:59PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: I've been having occasional lock ups. The screen will blank out like X has crashed and I see a tty login, but still see a mouse pointer, but can not type to login, and the mouse pointer will be stuck. Can't get any input to machine with keyboard (like to switch to another tty even), etc., so I reset or do a hard shutdown and reboot. I dig into dmesg, and the only common thread I'm seeing is that it happens when my Samsung Galaxy is plugged into the machine to recharge it. Okay, I've looked in /var/log/kern.log I think I found relevant stuff just before this latest lock-up. I grabbed a whole bunch of it, mentioning CD-ROM, usb mass storage device and Samsung (it's a phone, not an optical drive). I can't help with the issue, I'm afraid, but I can shed a little light on this. The phone contains an image of its "Driver CD" and presents this to the USB host as a CD-ROM, as well as presenting itself as a mass storage device. The idea is that you can just plug the phone into your PC, it sees a CD drive with the drivers disc in and installs them (and, optionally, any additional software). Then it sees the device properly. This is usually for Windows users. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/509cb1fa.7060...@rpdom.net
Re: how to prevent dvd drives from being polled
On 31/10/12 16:13, Dom wrote:
On 31/10/12 15:48, Frank McCormick wrote:
On 31/10/12 10:42 AM, lee wrote:
Darac Marjal writes:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:25:18AM +0100, lee wrote:
Hi,
how do I prevent the dvd drives from being polled by udisks-daemon? I
can kill the process and it becomes a zombie, and I'd rather get
rid of
it.
This polling is something I really don't need or want! What else like
this is going on, and how do I disable it?
According to the man page[1], it should be as simple as (!) adding a
property to the device using a udev rule.
Apparently, yes --- but what rule or property is that? And how do I
disable it without rebooting? Udev stuff is a mystery, with
configuration that isn't readable by humans.
Googling the problem turned up this
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_VENDOR}=="APPLE*", ENV{ID_MODEL}=="SD Card
Reader*", ENV{UDISKS_DISABLE_POLLING}="1"
Of course you'll have to make changes to match your CD-rom and where to
put the rule is a mystery (to me)...but it should get you started.
I believe the line should go in a new file called something like
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-local-rules
I haven't had a chance to test it yet
Ok, that file should have been called
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-local.rules
(All rules files must end with .rules)
It looks like the variable gets set for me with
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{UDISKS_DISABLE_POLLING}="1"
as the rule.
However, I can't confirm that this has disabled polling yet.
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Re: how to prevent dvd drives from being polled
On 31/10/12 15:48, Frank McCormick wrote:
On 31/10/12 10:42 AM, lee wrote:
Darac Marjal writes:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:25:18AM +0100, lee wrote:
Hi,
how do I prevent the dvd drives from being polled by udisks-daemon? I
can kill the process and it becomes a zombie, and I'd rather get rid of
it.
This polling is something I really don't need or want! What else like
this is going on, and how do I disable it?
According to the man page[1], it should be as simple as (!) adding a
property to the device using a udev rule.
Apparently, yes --- but what rule or property is that? And how do I
disable it without rebooting? Udev stuff is a mystery, with
configuration that isn't readable by humans.
Googling the problem turned up this
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_VENDOR}=="APPLE*", ENV{ID_MODEL}=="SD Card
Reader*", ENV{UDISKS_DISABLE_POLLING}="1"
Of course you'll have to make changes to match your CD-rom and where to
put the rule is a mystery (to me)...but it should get you started.
I believe the line should go in a new file called something like
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-local-rules
I haven't had a chance to test it yet
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Re: OT: A question about bash scripting
On 29/10/12 20:31, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
(trimmed)
I want
((seconds=(done-started)-(((done-started)/60)*60)+100))
min_sec=$(((done-started)/60))":"${seconds: -2}
in one line, instead of two lines.
I don't understand your reply.
Even if I would add ${min_sec: 2} to each "echo" command (there will be
a second output to a log file, it wouldn't be formatted as needed.
FOR YOUR EXAMPLE, IIUC IT SHOULD BE? ...
### Killall and Restore session
started=$(date +%s)
sleep 2
### Time
month=$(date +%B)
mon=$(date +%b)
d_y_t=$(date '+/%d/%Y %T')
done=$(date +%s)
#((seconds=(done-started)-(((done-started)/60)*60)+100))
#min_sec=$(((done-started)/60))":"${seconds: -2}
min_sec=$(((done-started)/60))":"$(((done-started)-(((done-started)/60)*60)+100))
echo
echo"Attended time to restore session: $min_sec"
echo -n "Session restored at " ; printf %9.9s $month ; echo $d_y_t
echo
... RESULT ...
Attended time to restore session: 0:102
Session restored at October/29/2012 21:11:43
... RESP. ...
### Killall and Restore session
started=$(date +%s)
sleep 2
### Time
month=$(date +%B)
mon=$(date +%b)
d_y_t=$(date '+/%d/%Y %T')
done=$(date +%s)
#((seconds=(done-started)-(((done-started)/60)*60)+100))
#min_sec=$(((done-started)/60))":"${seconds: -2}
min_sec=$(((done-started)/60))":"$(((done-started)-(((done-started)/60)*60)+100))
min_sec=${min_sec: 2}
echo
echo"Attended time to restore session: $min_sec"
echo -n "Session restored at " ; printf %9.9s $month ; echo $d_y_t
echo
... RESULT ...
Attended time to restore session: 102
Session restored at October/29/2012 21:17:26
BUT I NEED ...
### Killall and Restore session
started=$(date +%s)
sleep 2
### Time
month=$(date +%B)
mon=$(date +%b)
d_y_t=$(date '+/%d/%Y %T')
done=$(date +%s)
((seconds=(done-started)-(((done-started)/60)*60)+100))
min_sec=$(((done-started)/60))":"${seconds: -2}
echo
echo"Attended time to restore session: $min_sec"
echo -n "Session restored at " ; printf %9.9s $month ; echo $d_y_t
echo
... THIS RESULT ...
Attended time to restore session: 0:02
Session restored at October/29/2012 21:21:32
... WHILE I WONT THIS 2 lines, AS ONE LINE, INCLUDING THE FORMATTING:
((seconds=(done-started)-(((done-started)/60)*60)+100))
min_sec=$(((done-started)/60))":"${seconds: -2}
Would this do what you are after?
### Killall and Restore session
started=$(date +%s)
sleep 2
### Time
month=$(date +%B)
mon=$(date +%b)
d_y_t=$(date '+/%d/%Y %T')
done=$(date +%s)
echo
printf "Attended time to restore session: %4d:%02d\n"
$(((done-started)/60)) $(((done-started)%60))
printf "Session restored at %9.9s%s\n" "$month" "$d_y_t"
echo
(The first "printf" is a long line that will probably get spilt by
email. It should all be on one line).
Also the SECONDS shell counter variable is useful for this sort of thing.
For example:
### Killall and Restore session
SECONDS=0
...
done=$SECONDS
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Re: DVD-RAM, Raspberry Pi and other toys - Was: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW
On 17/10/12 22:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Apologize Pierre, it wasn't intended to capture your thread. On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:56 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: Raspberry Pi is cool (not my cup of tea, but cool nonetheless). It looks like it is selling for 35 USD, which is what I always heard quoted. I suspect I'm too old and sluggish, when I was young I played with hardware and programmed Assembler and unbelievable, even C. Today I don't have those abilities anymore. Yes, it's cool, but I suspect I wouldn't use it, I would be to lazy to learn, or I would learn and then spend more time with Computers, then I really would lose any real world social contacts, would feed myself with more junk foot. At some point it's better to stop ;). You're never too old :-) I bought a Raspberry Pi soon after they first came out, and it is great fun to work on. My C skills are weak, but I've managed to create a few small apps for it. Also, I used to dabble in ARM assembler back when I had a BBC Micro, and a little later. I do like the fact that it is possible to write small native apps to run on the "bare metal" system without any OS required. As for the price being different to the original quotes - the $25 price is for the "model A" which isn't available yet (due around Christmas, I believe). The "model B" currently selling has 2 USB ports, compared to the one port on the A, and the A doesn't have ethernet. Also, current model Bs now have 512MB of RAM, instead of the original 256MB (I suspect the model A will have 256MB). -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/507fbe4a.7070...@rpdom.net
Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives
On 14/10/12 10:36, Brian wrote: On Sat 13 Oct 2012 at 18:49:14 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Debian Squeeze installed successfully ! The dual-boot did not work but I can boot into either Win2k or Debian simply by changing the boot order in the BIOS (hdd-0 or hdd-1). When I set Debian (hdd-1) as 1st boot device I do receive a menu that asks which OS I would like to boot but Win2k (hdd-0) is not offered as a choice. Its missing. It's not unknown for the installer to not record an OS in the GRUB menu even when it detects its presence. The guide does remark that this process is still something of a "black art". The only choices presented are Debian Squeeze and Debian Recovery. I guess the fact that I did not put GRUB on the win2k drive (hdd-0) is probably why win2k is not offered as an optional OS to boot. However, based on the suggestions from the helpful replies I have received and reading the online tutorials, everyone has suggested the same thing, "Don't put Grub on the windows drive". That is good enough advice for me! Who knows what could have happened! Probably nothing disastrous. The Windows boot loader would have been wiped out, of course, but if there had been no Windows entry in the GRUB menu, it is recoverable. As we shall see. I can still boot either OS (win2k or Debian) simply by changing the boot order in BIOS. Not a big deal. Sure beats swapping drives in and out of the computer. :) Login as root and run the command update-grub Watch the screen for a mention of "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional". Check for a Windows entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg with less /boot/grub/grub.cfg If it there it should be offered as an option when you reboot. You might need to install the os-prober package first. Grub2 uses that to identify other OSes on your system. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/507a8c85.3060...@rpdom.net
Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?
On 28/09/12 16:20, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: Good morning, When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what is happening on VT2 by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using tail -f to get a continuous output of the console, but it fails to ever update. Is it possible to watch another VT in real time over ssh? Thanks, Craig What I am trying to do is monitor logs on a remote system. I have the log entries going to the log files as well as VT2. If I ssh into the machine and tail -f the system log, it quits updating when the log is rotated. So I figured if I could watch the second console in real time I would be able to see the same thing without interruption when the log file rotates. Is this possible? Is there a better way to do it? Try "tail --follow=mylogfile", this will followed the currently named "mylogfile" even if the old file is renamed and a new one opened, rather than following the old file which -f does. Also the "-F" option will do similar, but won't fail if the file is inaccessible for a while. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5065c4e8.8050...@rpdom.net
Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?
On 28/09/12 13:52, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:23:59PM +0100, Dom wrote: It *is* possible that smartctl is mis-interpretting the status of your disk, but given your slow fdisk command I suspect not. Time to backup, backup, backup, buy a new disk and transfer the data over asap. YES to backup, but it's worth changing your SATA cable before investing in a new disk, or at least ensuring your current one is seated properly. Try to measure the *rate* that Hardware_ECC_Recovered is increasing over a set period of time, check/replace cable, measure again. Good points, which I did think of *after* I'd posted my comment. Good catch. :-) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5065bdf9.1040...@rpdom.net
Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?
On 28/09/12 12:27, Albretch Mueller wrote: Failing boot sector? Some other sector it has to read is failing? Check the logs. Try (from smartmontools): ~ I don't know exactly which of your questions/suggestions running: ~ smartctl -A /dev/sda | egrep -i "sector|realloc" ~ relates to, but it didn't report any error message. Without grep I got: ~ $ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda smartctl 5.43 2012-05-01 r3539 [i686-linux-3.3.7] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 082 006Pre-fail Always - 96695847 Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very low. 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 075 060 030Pre-fail Always - 17316569764 That is also seriously bad. 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 097 097 000Old_age Always - 2678 Is this a fairly new disk? Only 2678 hours use. 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 078 057 000Old_age Always - 102323103 It looks like many errors have been recovered using ECC, so you probably wouldn't have noticed those. It *is* possible that smartctl is mis-interpretting the status of your disk, but given your slow fdisk command I suspect not. Time to backup, backup, backup, buy a new disk and transfer the data over asap. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/506596df.7030...@rpdom.net
Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?
On 28/09/12 11:30, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Hi On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:52:26AM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: $ date; fdisk -l; date Thu Sep 27 22:48:21 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00052568 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 633908614419543041c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda2390861457814015919527007+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda378140160 23442047978140160 83 Linux /dev/sda4 234420480 488396799 1269881605 Extended /dev/sda5 234420543 3534259504728+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda6 353430063 372981104 9775521c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda7 372981168 392516144 9767488+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda8 392516208 43157015919526976 83 Linux /dev/sda9 431570223 441353744 4891761 83 Linux /dev/sda10 441353808 446253569 2449881 83 Linux /dev/sda11 446253633 44981 1783183+ 83 Linux /dev/sda12 449822720 48839679919287040 83 Linux Thu Sep 27 22:48:59 UTC 2012 So... fdisk -l took 38 seconds - which is a bit much. Question: How long does "fdisk -l /dev/sda" take? (note: specifying "/dev/sda" explicitly, rather than fdisk figure it out) If this is a lot shorter, then your problem may be related to how fdisk chooses a default device to look at, and the contents of /proc/partitions becomes interesting... Hope this help Also, try using "time fdisk -l". The time command gives a slightly better idea of where the time is being spent that just using date before and after. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50659554.5060...@rpdom.net
Re: [OT] How to redirect input/output to another console?
On 08/09/12 14:58, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi folks, I know, maybe this is not the right forum, as my question is not really debian based. But maybe you might want to help either. I have a friend far away from me, which is using debian/testing same as me. As I am helping this woman sometimes, and she is willing to learn, I would give her an option, to see, what I am doing in the shell (input, output and error). She is also capable working in the shell (but still not very experienced with it), and so I am looking for a way, that - either she can see, what I am doing in my shell - I can see her shell - or best, we can both work in ONE shell IMO it is a good way for her, to learn, what is going on. I know, that the first was possible in the past, but I cannot remember any more how I did it, it was something with redirecting, Of course I read the manuals, and searched the web, but I still did not find the best solution, yet. Any hints are welcome. I'd use screen. Get your friend to start a screen session with screen -U -a -S myscreen then log in to her machine and connect to the same session with screen -U -a -x myscreen for this. The -U (use UTF-8) and -a (use full terminal capabilities) are optional. It's low bandwidth and you'll be sharing the same shell session. Screen also has the advantage that if you get disconnected, you can reconnect to the same session again. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/504b6a9a.9010...@rpdom.net
Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base
On 01/09/12 14:35, lee wrote: Joe writes: On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 09:38:42 +0200 lee wrote: Camaleón writes: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:56:29 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:20:02 +0200 Camaleón wrote: (...) http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/alsa-base/alsa-base_1.0.25+2+nmu1/changelog * Drop linux-sound-base: OSS was removed from the kernel pre-squeeze. (closes: #662038). Remove all module list generation machinery, it's now obsolete. * Removing linux-sound-base also closes: #376241, #558408 the hard way. Review the referenced bug reports and if there's nothing that solves the problem you're facing you can report it. According to aptitude, alsa-base depends on linux-sound-base and conflicts with linux-sound-base. So you either have to remove both of them or keep their current versions. So am I supposed to report this problem against alsa-base as a problem of broken dependencies? Or should I remove both packages and (forcefully) re-install alsa-base in case I don't have sound anymore afterwards? How did you circumvent the problem? There wasn't a problem, or at least not when it happened in sid. Hm ok, I'm running testing, so things might be much different. I'm running testing/wheezy too. This is what I get: dom@oz:~$ aptitude show alsa-base Package: alsa-base State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.0.25+2+nmu2 Priority: optional Section: sound Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers Architecture: all Uncompressed Size: 133 k Depends: kmod, procps, udev Recommends: alsa-utils Suggests: alsa-oss, oss-compat Breaks: linux-sound-base Provides: alsa Description: ALSA driver configuration files There's no dependency on linux-sound-base there. My sound seems to still be working too. Have you done an apt-get or aptitude update recently? -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/504227dd.4090...@rpdom.net
Re: apt-get fails due to "system" message bus problem
On 14/08/12 14:25, Malte Forkel wrote: Hello! I have written a little script to download a package from a repository specified on the command line. E.g. the following will download the package debian-archive-keyring_2010.08.28_all.deb on an Ubuntu system: $ apt-getfrom -s "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main" \ download debian-archive-keyring apt-getfrom works by setting up a "sandbox" environment in a temporary configuration file, based on a suggestion by Bob Proulx (see http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/04/msg00953.html) When I use apt-getfrom while building a package (i.e. from within debian/rules), I run into an error. I guess it has to do with fakeroot, because I can reproduce the problem like this: $ fakeroot apt-getfrom -s "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable \ main" download debian-archive-keyring Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. Could someone please explain what causes this error and/or how to avoid it? I suspect that fakeroot is interpreting the -s option. Can you try: $ fakeroot -- apt-getfrom -s "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable \ main" download debian-archive-keyring The "--" should make fakeroot pass the -s through to your apt-getfrom command. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/502a6ca4.6090...@rpdom.net
Re: tsclient
On 13/08/12 07:18, lina wrote: Hi, Before I have the tsclient installed in wheezy, one thing pretty weird, I can access one remote machine without problem, but for another, similar one always report the access of session is denied, which has no problem in accessing from other computer. So I purge it and decide to re-install. Now started to realize that there in no tsclient for wheezy, and quite interesting is that for squeeze it's 0.150-4 for sid one it's 0.150-2 I don't know which one is better for wheezy one, and can't find the bug report in the debian package tracking system. Thanks ahead for your suggestions, or are there some alternative one? like tsclient. From tsclient bug 547314: "tsclient has been unmaintained upstream for a long time. We have kept it because we lacked a client for RDP, but now that grdc is in the archive, which is maintained and much better than tsclient, it can be removed." Mentioned as another alternative later in that bug report is remmina. (grdc is now a dummy package in squeeze that depends on remmina) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5028b572.8030...@rpdom.net
Re: Something about netiquette Re: systemd
On 05/08/12 18:13, Mika Suomalainen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05.08.2012 15:20, Ralf Mardorf wrote: You know why so many people don't use Linux? Linux doesn't run for most "stupid" users, but Windows does. It's stuff like pulseaudio that is the showstopper. I have understood that the problem with most basic users is that most of (commercial) computer games are made for Windows. How many games made for Linux have you seen at some store? Maybe that will change now that Valve are starting to port all their games to Linux platforms. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/501eb78f.2020...@rpdom.net
Re: Printers using free software only
On 02/08/12 19:54, Brian wrote: On Thu 02 Aug 2012 at 20:17:27 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juli 2012 schrieb Brian: All the major applications on the popular DEs are now geared up to output in PDF format when printing. Haven´t there been plans to switch CUPS to use PDF internally as well? May I repeat the URL given previously: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/pdfasstandardprintjobformat Having applications produce output in PDF was all part of the plan to have the complete printing workflow with CUPS use PDF. All the essentials are now in place. It has been a truly remarkable effort. It seems to be a good plan. I can see the advantages in it. A pity it doesn't quite seem to work for me. I use a Brother HL5250DN printer, which used to work fine. For a while now I've been unable to print from Iceweasel to that printer (it works on my Epson Stylus Color 470, although I can't get the margins set right). I believe this is due to Brother's BRScript Postscript emulation. I know some fixes are in place for that, but it still doesn't work - just prints an error page. Recently gedit has failed to print properly, just prints a line of gobbldegook followed by several blank pages. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/501ad4e0@rpdom.net
Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found
On 21/07/12 02:20, Joel Roth wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:31:09PM +, Camale??n wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:31:08 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: (...) But scanimage --list-devices only show my notebook camera. The notebook is a Lenovo T410. My kernel is recent 3.2 stock kernel. Any ideas what to try? Try running the above command as root to discard a permissions issue. Hey, it was a permissions issue! Good guess. $ sudo scanimage --list-devices device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname Integrated Camera virtual device device `epson2:libusb:002:008' is a Epson Perfection1240 flatbed scanner Is it a permission problem with udev or SANE or ??? BTW, the scanner doesn't look like a regular /dev entry. Just a thought... is your user in the "scanner" group? -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/500a38ae.4030...@rpdom.net
Re: dump - restore
On 20/07/12 19:50, Mostafa Hashemi wrote: sorry because of last message, coincidentally i pressed send key the complete message is : hi guys thank you all for your answers to my last questions. i found how dump - restore works. but i have question : i did this : dump -0aj -f /tmp/1.bak / in order to run a dump to back up the whole system ( did i do it in a right way ? ) and after the dump is finished, i do this to restore it : restore -if/tmp/1.bak it says : Dump tape is compressed. restore> what should i do here ? i checked out the man page, i used this : restore> extract /tmp/1.bak after enter, i see this : you have not read any volumes yet. unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start with last volume and work toward first. specify next volume # ( none if no more volumes ) : what should i do i this step ? thank u all ... You should enter volume number 1. But you should probably read the manpage more carefully. "extract /tmp/1.bak" will try and restore the file "/tmp/1.bak" from the dump, ie. the file you dumped to, not the contents. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5009b364.3020...@rpdom.net
Re: Error while try to get tcp socket options with lsof
On 19/07/12 18:31, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:03:48 +0200, Meike Stone wrote: I want get information about the socket options from a specified process with the tool lsof. But every time I get a strange answer (see below). The manual page says, that this option can be specified. What goes wrong? (...) If I read it correctly, the manual also says that not all of the arguments are available, you have to check it with "lsof -h" which results in: -T qs TCP/TPI Q,St (s) info Also, from the FAQ mentioned: "3.14.1Why doesn't lsof report socket options, socket states, and TCP flags and values for my dialect? ... Linux No socket options and values, socket states, or TCP flags and values are reported. The support for "-Tf" could not be added to Linux, because socket options, socket states, and TCP flags and values are not available via the /proc file system." -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50084a9e.90...@rpdom.net
Re: Bug query: USB Keyboard random repeats
On 16/07/12 15:52, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 16 iul 12, 11:27:52, Steve Brumby wrote: How can I log a bug with Keyboard USB? With Debian Squeezy (arm) on the Raspberry Pi and Raspbian the keyboard gets random repeats, but with Archlinuxarm no problems. As there's no problems with exactly the same hardware configuration with Archlinux I suspect there's something in the Debian build that creates the problem. Your keyboard may be drawing a little too much power for the Pi to handle. It can be quite sensitive to voltage. As you are probably aware the USB ports can only supply a maximum of 140mA each, and that's with a good PSU. With borderline power even different software can be enough to cause it to glitch. Try plugging the keyboard into a powered USB hub. Also, you should check out the Raspberry Pi forums if you haven't done so already. The Troubleshooting forum may help you: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=28&sid=fffc90f319f2c13d57b4fdc2a98e3cb2 It is my understanding that Raspbian is an unofficial port so I'm afraid you will have to ask the Raspbian developers for this one, unless you can reproduce it with an official Debian kernel (assuming there is one, didn't look into it as I plan to use Raspbian myself as soon as my RPI arrives). Raspbian is the best (unofficial) Debian port for the Pi. I've been running it, as well as the official Squeeze and Wheezy releases since I got mine. There's still some work that needs doing to get hardware accelerated graphics working, but that is in progress I believe. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/500451d4.2030...@rpdom.net
Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32
On 16/07/12 15:41, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:14:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Camaleón wrote: Which, generally speaking, it translates into...? I mean, what are those "block lists" and how are they effectively affecting the boot process from a user's point of view? Let's assume that grub1/grub2 have to load "/boot/grub/camaleon" in order to boot. If they're using block lists, they'll locate that file as starting on xxx block of yyy partition. If they're using an intermediate stage (grub1's stage 1.5 or grub2's core.img), they'll locate that file by name. Block lists are supposed to be less reliable/more fragile/(fill in with the negative flavor that suits you). I'm not sure to had get it (sorry, I must be a bit dense...). Can you provide a user case for someone using block lists and another case when they're not in use? As I understand it, when GRUB is installed in the MBR it installs a bit more code in the "spare" space between the MBR and the first partition. This includes code that recognises various file system formats (read only), so it can work out where "/boot/vmlinux-xxx" is. When installed on a partition boot sector it doesn't have that spare space, so needs to have the location of the kernel/initrd hard-coded in to it as a list of physical disk blocks. If, for any reason the files moved (say you resize the partition containing /boot, or backup/delete/restore /boot), then that block list won't match the actual location of the files *unless* you run update-grub. In practice this won't happen very often, if at all. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50043cd2.4050...@rpdom.net
Re: OT: Web based newsreader suggestion?
On 14/07/12 02:26, T Elcor wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a free, good web based newsreader? I plan to use it to read debian user group. I know of http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user and http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ but don't particularly like either of them. Old Google Groups would be fine but they now require the use of Javascript and that's a no-go feature for me. Thanks Before I subscribed to this list, I used to read it using Icedove as a newsreader (I still do for some other groups). -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5000d142.9050...@rpdom.net
Re: Why compiling.
On 11/07/12 01:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 08:54 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:03:12PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. what is the reason for this? i am using debian for almost 1.5 year and have been using it on different platform in CLI mode. but no need of compiling in this time window. The kernel provided when you install Linux, Debian included, has to work on nearly every system out there so it includes drivers for nearly piece of hardware that can be installed in a PC. I always compile a kernel with only the hardware I have in my computer. This gives me a smaller memory footprint and a smaller disk footprint. It's all a matter of what you want. Those smaller footprints usually aren't needed for modern computers, since we've usually got more than enough disc space and RAM. OTOH we perhaps change some hardware from time to time and then we need different modules. Perhaps a visitor has some hardware, that should work on our computers. It's a dangerous balancing act. I wouldn't remove too much. The key word there is "usually"... I run stock kernels on all my newer systems, but I have some old ones which it just won't work with. Therefore I compile my own. It's customised for those particular systems, so doesn't need to be portable. I always keep the previous known working version of a kernel on the system until I'm certain that the newly compiled one is stable, and if a system becomes unbootable I can usually recover by removing the hard disk and connecting it to a working system and fixing whatever the problem was. I realise that my situation is quite different to the average user with their 256GB/6GHz/128 bit systems ;-) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ffd1f7b.8070...@rpdom.net
Re: Squeeze, MySQL and hosts.allow and hosts.deny ignored
On 10/07/12 17:29, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:09:42 +0200, Zdenek Herman wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:11:10 +0200, Zdenek Herman wrote: (please, reply
at the bottom)
Dne 9.7.2012 16:52, Camaleón napsal(a):
(...)
I don't know why does not work for you. Take a look into this article
that shows a few samples for using mysql with tcp wrappers:
http://www.unixmen.com/securing-services-with-tcp-wrappers/
And also read the manual ("man hosts_options"), maybe we are omitting
something obvious...
Greetings,
I found part of problem. If I use localhost can connect, if 127.0.0.1
all is ok.
If I connect from remote first is checked client in mysql grant and
after in tcp wrappers.
Conslusion for me is that mysql doesn't support tcp wrappers correctly
(first check by wrapper then authentization by service).
(...)
root@mon:~# mysql -h localhost -p
(...)
Ah, how curious... It seems to be documented here:
4.2.2. Connecting to the MySQL Server
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/connecting.html
"(...) On Unix, MySQL programs treat the host name localhost specially,
in a way that is likely different from what you expect compared to other
network-based programs. For connections to localhost, MySQL programs
attempt to connect to the local server by using a Unix socket file. This
occurs even if a --port or -P option is given to specify a port number.
To ensure that the client makes a TCP/IP connection to the local server,
use --host or -h to specify a host name value of 127.0.0.1, or the IP
address or name of the local server. You can also specify the connection
protocol explicitly, even for localhost, by using the --protocol=TCP
option. For example:
shell> mysql --host=127.0.0.1
shell> mysql --protocol=TCP
(...)"
Camaleón is correct.
When you are logged into mysql, you can enter the "status" command and
it will show how you are connected.
Connect via "-h localhost":
mysql> status;
--
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.24, for debian-linux-gnu (i686) using
readline 6.2
...
Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket
...
UNIX socket:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
...
--
Connect via "-h 127.0.0.1":
mysql> status;
--
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.24, for debian-linux-gnu (i686) using
readline 6.2
...
Connection: 127.0.0.1 via TCP/IP
...
TCP port: 3306
...
--
Hope that clears it up a bit.
It might be possible to disable the socket connection in the MySQL
config, but I haven't looked into that.
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Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev
On 07/07/12 16:46, Mike McClain wrote:
Hi Dom,
Thanks for your suggestions and letting me know this is still possible.
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 04:56:10AM +0100, Dom wrote:
On 07/07/12 00:08, Mike McClain wrote:
Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev?
Yes, I am. Although I believe there are some circumstances where
this may not be possible. eg. where something else needs to be
started in order to mount the root filesystem first.
How do you get around the fact that udev is not running yet?
May I see what your entry in grub.cfg looks like for this kernel?
By using the device name, rather than UUID or Label, it seems.
grub.cfg (for grub2) is:
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bad6c13d-19f0-47ad-bc6e-542a911d4178
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=800x480x24
load_video
insmod gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
bad6c13d-19f0-47ad-bc6e-542a911d4178
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en_GB
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
set timeout=5
play 480 440 1
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.19.libby2-586' --class
debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
bad6c13d-19f0-47ad-bc6e-542a911d4178
echo'Loading Linux 3.2.19.libby2-586 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.19.libby2-586 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet noapm
}
(irrelevant bits trimmed)
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Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev
On 07/07/12 18:49, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:53:27 -0400 (EDT), Dom wrote: On 07/07/12 16:53, Stephen Powell wrote: It's getting harder and harder to get along without an initrd these days. Why is it so important to you not to use one? As others have pointed out, using a UUID or LABEL specification for the root file system makes it impossible to get the root file system mounted if you don't use an initrd. I didn't know that. It seems my kernel doesn't either, because it is working just fine with UUIDs and no initrd ;-) I agree there are issues with labels though, which is a pity. It may be possible to build modules into the kernel, so that an initial RAM file system is not needed to load kernel modules from. But a user- space process, such as udev, cannot be started until there is some kind of root file system to read it from. One can't build a user-space process into the kernel! I can believe that a UUID specification in /etc/fstab would work, but I can't see how a UUID specification in the boot loader would work. It is my understanding that udev is responsible for reading the UUIDs and LABELs and creating the corresponding block special files in /dev and symbolic links to them in /dev/disk. If there is no initrd, how can udev be started? I don't see how this can work. Are you sure that a UUID specification is being used in the boot loader, as well as in /etc/fstab? Ah, I see that my grub.cfg (grub2) is using root=/dev/hda1 for the "linux" entry, despite GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true being commented out in /etc/default/grub on that box. I'm not sure why. The "search" entry has "--set=root bad6c13d-19f0-47ad-bc6e-542a911d4178" in it, which is the UUID of the root partition. I wonder why, as I'm sure I didn't edit it manually. Maybe the grub setup is smart enough to realise? I just ran update-grub to check and it produced the same entries. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ff88edb.3010...@rpdom.net
Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev
On 07/07/12 16:53, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:08:14 -0400 (EDT), Mike McClain wrote: Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev? Any tips, pointers will be appreciated. It's getting harder and harder to get along without an initrd these days. Why is it so important to you not to use one? As others have pointed out, using a UUID or LABEL specification for the root file system makes it impossible to get the root file system mounted if you don't use an initrd. I didn't know that. It seems my kernel doesn't either, because it is working just fine with UUIDs and no initrd ;-) I agree there are issues with labels though, which is a pity. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ff86987.2010...@rpdom.net
Re: getting gnome 3
On 07/07/12 03:30, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 07/03/2012 06:47 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:48:53 +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: Is there an easy way to install gnome 3 and the latest packages in squeeze? Because that I can install. No. If you want GNOME3+gnome-shell, reconsider wheezy. Now that Wheezy is frozen (and will, within 6 months or so become stable) will it be possible to keep Gnome2 when upgrading, or will we be forced to use Gnome3? You'll have to use Gnome3. You can use it in "Gnome Classic" mode (fallback) for now, but it has been strongly hinted that that option won't be available for much longer. I've switched to XFCE, as Gnome3 was too much of a PITA to try and use on my laptop (I used pinning to keep Gnome2 as long as possible, but was missing out on important updates). XFCE is sufficiently "Gnome2" like for me, once I'd tweaked a few things. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ff7b547.3020...@rpdom.net
Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev
On 07/07/12 00:08, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, While surely no expert I've been building my own kernels for a long time with little trouble but with a recent install of 'Squeeze' I'm stumped. I've built, reconfigured, built again for several days now. No joy. I've spent hours Googling for any and everybody's thoughts on the error: 'Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)' with little luck. Some one did suggest I decompile the initrd that shipped with the install. On doing that I discovered that the device files for the harddrive are created before the drive is mounted. Booting an 'Etch' partition I see that Squeeze's /dev/ is all but empty when Squeeze is not running which may have something to do with the failure to mount the root partition. Is anyone running a custom kernel without an initrd with udev? Yes, I am. Although I believe there are some circumstances where this may not be possible. eg. where something else needs to be started in order to mount the root filesystem first. Some of my older machines (kept running for sentimental reasons) need an old ATA/IDE driver that the current Debian kernels do not include. Any tips, pointers will be appreciated. Make sure that *all* filesystem and device drivers for your root partition are compiled directly into the kernel - not as modules. Look at what modules are used from your initrd and compile those into your kernel In fact, if you are building a kernel specifically for one box (or a set of similar boxen), it is a good idea to have all/most hardware drivers built-in. I only have external peripherals (USB/cardbus devices) built as modules. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ff7b35a.8090...@rpdom.net
Re: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid - Howto setup bootlogd?
On 29/06/12 03:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, on my system I have enabled bootlogd: in /etc/default/bootlogd I have: BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes but the /var/log/boot file has timestamp dec 27 2011 so it seem's that bootlogd doesn't work. Why not? This may sound like a silly question, but do you have the bootlogd package installed? I ask, because around that time bootlogd was split off from sysvinit-utils into a seperate package, which isn't installed by default. dom@oz:~$ zcat /usr/share/doc/sysvinit-utils/NEWS.Debian.gz bootlogd has moved from sysvinit-utils to a separate bootlogd package. If you wish to continue using bootlogd, please install the bootlogd package. Note that the configuration file /etc/default/bootlogd and its option BOOTLOGD_ENABLE no longer exist; if you do not wish to run bootlogd, remove the bootlogd package. -- Josh Triplett Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:03:08 + -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fed4959.7040...@rpdom.net
Re: Re (2): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.
On 28/06/12 16:18, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Berni Elbourn Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:32:29 +0100 Are there too many files in target folder? 197 files here whereas Wikipedia mentions 65,460 files for "32 KB" clusters. From: Chris Davies Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:47:21 +0100 What is the output of "mount | grep sdd1" ... peter@dalton:~$ mount | grep sdd1 /dev/sdd1 on /media/4345-A417 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000 ,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush) ... and also "df -i /dev/sdd1"? peter@dalton:~$ df -i /dev/sdd1 FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sdd1 0 0 0- /media/4345-A417 That can't be right. The remedy is to move files to a subdirectory. Seems the problem is deeper such as a bug in the software which makes the filesystem. Any further ideas before I go off to study FAT filesystems? Thanks everyone, ... P. Ok, I've just tested this. It is a FAT filesystem limitation. On FAT12 (and FAT16, iirc) there is a limit of 512 files in the root directory. Other directories don't have this limit. Ok, you don't have 512 files, *but* you're using it as VFAT, which uses extra directory entries to store additional entries (long filenames etc) for each file, thus reducing the number of files that can be stored. (Incidentally, FAT file systems don't use inodes as such, so none will show). I created a filesystem the same size as yours with mkfs.vfat, then did a simple: for i in $(seq 1 255);do touch Longfilename$i;done After 173 files had been written, I got: touch: cannot touch `Longfilename174': No space left on device and dom@oz:/mnt$ df -k . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/loop0498368 0498368 0% /mnt (I used a file to test, not a physical drive as I didn't have one to hand). Try creating a subdirectory on that drive and storing the files in there instead. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fec7215.9060...@rpdom.net
Re: E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
On 24/06/12 06:01, lina wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:39 PM, lina wrote: Hi, I don't know how to fix the following problem, It's fixed after changing the source.list to my former mirror. Thanks, Best regards, W: Failed to fetch gzip:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_main_binary-amd64_Packages: Hash Sum mismatch E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. E: Couldn't rebuild package cache Thanks ahead for the suggestions, I think that when your /var filled up, you were left with some partly downloaded files in /var/lib/apt/lists/partial and apt is trying to use those. I assume you've freed up a lot of space under /var now. Can you delete all the files uder that directory and try to update again? It is safe, as the files will be downloaded again. This leaves the question of why did /var fill up? Have you got a lot of old deb files under /var/cache/apt/archives? These can be safely got rid of with apt-get clean (unless you are keeping them for a reason). Also, apt-get autoclean will prevent them being left in there after an upgrade/install. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe6ad7d.6030...@rpdom.net
Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14
On 22/06/12 08:51, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 11:34:06 +, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: I think it is working now.But still getting some error while installing downloaded updates. dpkg: regarding .../ncurses-base_5.7+20100313-5_all.deb containing ncurses-base: package uses Breaks; not supported in this dpkg dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-base_5.7+20100313-5_all.deb (--unpack): unsupported dependency problem - not installing ncurses-base Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-base_5.7+20100313-5_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Have done an upgrade *and* a dist-upgrade? Please post the output of dpkg -l | grep dpkg I have done both upgrade and dist-upgrade and got the same type of error.For dist-upgrade, the error is :-" Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc-bin_2.11.3-3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)" The output of "dpkg -l | grep dpkg":- client:/home/student# dpkg -l | grep dpkg ii apt 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Debian ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for Debian ii type-handling 0.2.19 dpkg architecture generation script So, it seems the version of dpkg that is currently installed doesn't support the "Breaks:" option. It must be a very old one. I suggest that you first upgrade dpkg: apt-get install dpkg which should pull in the new version, then you can continue with an upgrade and dist-upgrade. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe4327d.70...@rpdom.net
Re: Samba Backup Tool Preserving File Owner/Group/Permissions
On 18/06/12 10:54, Volkan Yazıcı wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:09:04 +0100, keith writes: On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 10:41 +0300, Volkan Yazıcı wrote: I have access to a remote Samba storage device that I don't have a control over the uploaded file owner/group/permissions. Hence, once I upload my stuff to the remote end via rsync over Samba, I lose all my file attributes. Could you recommend any backup tool that provides a solution for such scenarios? That is, is there any backup tools that would preserve the file attributes in a secondary place? Or is there any other alternate path that you can recommend me to take? Perhaps if you tar (& gzip) your files before sending to your Samba storage. (man tar). In such a case, AFAIK, I won't be able to take benefit of incremental backups and I will need to tar+cp the whole disk everytime I want to take a backup. Am I mistaken? I suppose it could be possible to create a large file on the samba share, format it as ext2/3/4 and mount it using the loop option. Then you end up with samba just seeing a single file, but your box seeing an extX filesystem with all the attributes. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fdf2af6.3080...@rpdom.net
Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages
On 15/06/12 17:15, Christoph Groth wrote: Wayne Topa writes: On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote: For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to install some rather huge packages. "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed the reason why it is needed. In my case, aptitude wants to install texlive-fonts-extra though this package is currently not installed and also (to my knowledge) not required or recommended in any way. "apt-get full-upgrade" wants to do the same, BTW. What does aptitude why texlive-fonts-extra say? -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fdb6e5c.7030...@rpdom.net
Re: [OT] Documenting new stuff
On 10/06/12 12:32, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:15:05 +0200, Slavko wrote:
Dňa Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:10:39 + (UTC) Camaleón
napísal:
The tmpfs is more commented than the rcS (more exactly: rcS.ucf-dist - i
haven't merged changes yet).
Where is that "rcS.ucf-dist" file located?
The "${file}.ucf-dist" is where dpkg puts the new version of a config
file if you say to keep your exisiting version when you have previously
modified the file from the default.
For example, earlier today I got an update to php5-cli which detected
the fact that I had changed a line in /etc/php5/cli/php.ini, and when I
said to keep my version it put the new version in php.ini.ucf-dist.
(I have since moved my changes to another file and moved
php.ini.ucf-dist to php5.ini)
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Re: /tmp is too small
On 07/06/12 14:48, Hendrik Boom wrote: I need more space for /tmp. I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /tmp and uses the the space on the root partition, which has more than room enough. But then I discover that in my newly installed wheezy system, there *is* no /etc/fstab entry for /tmp. Apparently the kernel, all by itself, decides to mount the tmpfs on /tmp. How can I get it not to do this? in /etc/default/rcS: RAMTMP=no Or alternatively, how can I enlarge the tmpfs? I need it enlarged from anout 200M to about 2G for this week's project. Yes, that's a lot bigger than my RAM. in /etc/default/tmpfs: TMP_SIZE=2147483648 (I haven't tested this one though) -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd0ba86.4030...@rpdom.net
Re: (Mostly Solved) Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?
On 27/05/12 07:31, Dom wrote: On 27/05/12 06:49, Marc Shapiro wrote: Well, I can now connect without getting warnings, or errors. It is still asking for my password and I can live with that for now. I will look into authenticating without using passwords but, at least I can connect now. I'm guessing you were using shared keys? If you have rebuilt your system, it's identity will have changed. Firstly you can try copying the content of ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (or id_rsa.pub, depending on which you use) onto the end of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the destination machine. You might need to generate a new key (see ssh-keygen) first. Duh! I should have checked the subject first. Of course you are using RSA. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fc1cf28.9040...@rpdom.net
Re: (Mostly Solved) Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?
On 27/05/12 06:49, Marc Shapiro wrote: Well, I can now connect without getting warnings, or errors. It is still asking for my password and I can live with that for now. I will look into authenticating without using passwords but, at least I can connect now. I'm guessing you were using shared keys? If you have rebuilt your system, it's identity will have changed. Firstly you can try copying the content of ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (or id_rsa.pub, depending on which you use) onto the end of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the destination machine. You might need to generate a new key (see ssh-keygen) first. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fc1ca5b.4050...@rpdom.net
